Top 315 Unfamiliar Quotes & Sayings

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

They be starin at the money like it's unfamiliar

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Pizza is a great segue into unfamiliar flavors - plus, you can pile on the veggies.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is colored, the way light rains off people with auras and things like that...We don't normally see light like that. But we all know it. So this is no unfamiliar territory - or not unfamiliar light. I like to have this kind of light that reminds us of this other place we know.

The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.

Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way.

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.

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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.